This document contains the resume of Bhooma Sampath, who has over 8 years of experience as a business analyst in banking and financial services. He has expertise in requirements gathering, product development, testing, and change management. His career includes roles managing changes and acting as a business analyst for projects at Scope International and Wipro Technologies, and business analysis work for banking clients at Polaris Software Labs.

1. Bhooma Sampath
B.Tech (Information Technology); MBA (Systems & Marketing)
Business Analyst – Banking & Financial Services
Mobile: +91- 9962021411 | Email: bhoomasampath84@gmail.com
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
 Eight Plus Years of professional experience in IT industry with rich
overseas and offshore experience in Retail Banking and Payments
 Results-driven Business Analyst with strong knowledge in software-
development, product-development lifecycle.
 Extensive experience in Change Management, Functional Testing and
solution assessment in lieu of user readiness.
 Excels at client interfacing and collaborating with multiple
stakeholders across geographies to achieve win-win solutions. Highly
skilled in analytical, negotiation and problem solving skills. Broad
experience in conducting training and solution engineering
workshops.
 Certified in Financial Markets, Mutual Funds, Derivatives, Information
Security, Public Relations and JAIIB
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
 Client Communication  Prototype and specifications preparation
 Requirements Gathering  Gap Analysis
 Product Fitment  Functional Testing
 Training  Change Management
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Scope International, Chennai
Associate Manager (Dec 2013- Dec 2015)
Role: Change Manager
Domain: Retail Banking – SME
Typical activities would involve:
 Manage the change portfolio
 Identify the areas where implementing the change would lead to
metrics improvement
 Document/Review the Change request and own the change
 Perform Risk assessment and analyze the areas of impact
 Provide the Change request walk through to Stakeholders
 Align the change into release cycle based on its criticality
 Review the solution provided by technology team
 Perform testing
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2.  Act as a gate keeper for change
 Communicate the change to stakeholders
 Track and Report issues
 Define and measure success metrics
Role: Business Analyst
Domain: Liquidity
This project involved automating the ALCO (Asset Liability Committee) pack
which consisted of 18 reports across countries in daily and monthly
frequency.
 Understand the manual process
 Provide solution to automate from the manual system by
discussing with Subject Matter Experts
 Prepare the Business Requirement Documentation
 Provide the document walkthrough to stakeholders
 Make provision for country/region wise changes required in
solution
 Discuss with technical team on the solution involved
 Keep track of the development life cycle
 Communicate the status to stakeholders
Wipro Technologies, Chennai
Business Analyst (Jul 2011- Dec 2013)
Domain: Retail Banking
Client: Citi Bank
Wipro Technologies Ltd. & Citibank ITO are involved in migrating and
standardizing the Core Banking platform of Citibank across geographies,
from the local in-house applications to a standardized core banking suite
named Eclipse. This involves requirements gathering, gap analysis, design,
development & testing of the applications.
 Understand the BAU operations of the existing banking applications
running across Citibank CEEMEA geographies.
 Perform gap analysis of the functionalities of the local applications
vis-à-vis the Eclipse functionalities.
 Solution the requirements and wherever possible, provide workaround
from the existing base implementation.
 Prepare Use cases in Blueprint/Raptor and MS Word, screen
prototypes and high level process flow diagrams to ensure a clear
understanding of the ‘To-Be’ system.
 Discuss with the design/technical team on the complexities involved
in the requirement /enhancement.
 Prepare the functional Specifications for the requirements & providing
FS walk through to Business & obtaining sign-off on the same.
 Provide functional inputs to the technical and interface teams.
 Provide FS walk through to the internal stakeholders - Design,
Development and testing teams.
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3.  Provide functional support to the Business and technical/testing
teams, during SIT and UAT.
 Project management activities like scheduling, tracking and reporting.
 Facilitated trainings to New Joiners on the module and on the project.
Polaris Software Labs, Chennai
Business Analyst (Jul 2007 – July 2011)
Domain: Retail Banking
• Web Portals (Intellect Portal)
Intellect Portal is a state of art solution which can integrate Information,
Application and processes across organization boundaries. It acts as a
comprehensive and complete solution for the Internet banking needs of the
customer.
• Origination (Intellect Origination)
Intellect Origination is a highly evolved sourcing and credit evaluation
model solution which supports loan application processing. It’s a web based
flexible and robust system which includes components like Workflow and
Business Rule Engine (BRE).
Roles & Responsibilities
Pre-Sales Support
 Walk through the base product to business users and perform product
fitment study.
 Help respond to the Functional Queries in RFI/RFP
 Identify the list of gaps in the product vis-a-vis the client requirements
through brainstorming and Joint Application Development with
engineering team.
Requirements Elicitation
 Understand the “Voice of Customer” through analyzing business
objectives and product needs by interacting with Business teams.
 Prepare, Maintain and take effective action of all items in Gap-Tracker.
 Co-ordinate with technical and business teams to define functional
and non-functional requirements.
 Facilitate business and IT users and finalize on solution approach.
High-Level Product Design
 Solution design for the requirement identified using tools such as
Microsoft Visio.
 Providing effort estimation at the higher level
 Preparation of Business Requirements Document, Functional
Specification, Prototype, Process Flow diagrams and Use Case
Diagrams
 Provide a solution walkthrough to client and obtain sign-off
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4.  Prepare and simulate Use-cases using Requirement Analysis tools
such as Blueprint, Raptor
Knowledge Transfer
 Co-ordinate and transition the requirements to the Engineering team
by providing KT on the functional and solution detail.
 Provide Knowledge Transfer to testing and development team
Project Management Support (Risk & Scope Management)
 Manage and control the scope of the project and facilitate delivery on
change management.
 Effectively tracking and communicate the status, progress, and issues
of the project to various stakeholders.
 Facilitate the definition and design of Interface touch points across
the products / modules by collaborating with onshore and offshore
business & delivery teams.
Testing
 Co-ordinate with business partners to create test strategy and plan
for System Testing. Support business users at client site for UAT
testing.
 Prepare test cases and perform functional testing.
 Review the Test Scenarios and Test cases for SIT/UAT
Defect Tracking & Prevention
 Track & manage defects using “i-Solve”, an automated tool for defect-
tracking and HP Quality Center
 Participate in defect prevention efforts and facilitate causal analysis of
defects.
User Readiness Training
 Prepare User Training Materials and User Manuals to aid in User
Readiness and Go-Live.
 Plan and conduct “Train the Trainer” sessions at both onshore and
offshore delivery centre.
EDUCATION
 PG Diploma in Public Relations from University of Madras
(Distance Education) { January 2009 till December 2009}
 Masters in Business Administration in Systems & Marketing from
National Institute of Technology { June 2005 till June 2007}
 B.Tech (Information Technology) from Jerusalem College of
Engineering { June 2001 till June 2005}
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